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MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The United States, Australia and Japan on Monday denounced Beijing’s island-building and militarization of the South China Sea, in contrast to the increasingly tepid response from Southeast Asian nations over the festering issue. China claims nearly all of the sea, through which $5 trillion in annual shipping trade passes and which is believed to sit atop vast oil and gas deposits. Its sweeping claims overlap with Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Paris’ Eiffel Tower was evacuated by police after midnight on Sunday (August 6) after a man with a knife tried to force his way through a security check but was quickly stopped. The incident at the world-famous tourist site was initially treated as a criminal matter, but was later designated a counter-terrorism case because of the suspect’s statements to police and his apparent radicalization, a judicial source said. The company that […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea on Monday condemned the latest round of United Nations sanctions imposed against it over its weapons programs, saying it would not negotiate over its nuclear arms while it was threatened by the United States. The sanctions passed at the weekend were a “violent violation of our sovereignty,” Pyongyang said in a statement carried by its official Korea Central News Agency. “We will not put our self-defensive nuclear deterrent […]
MANILA, Philippines (CCTV) — China and Russia vowed on Sunday to maintain close communications with each other on the Korean Peninsula issue, saying the two countries hold highly consistent attitudes toward it. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said he and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov held an extensive and profound exchange of views over the current situation in the Korean Peninsula, especially the new resolution passed by the United Nations Security Council. Wang and Lavrov […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea dismissed offers of talks from the South during a rare exchange between the two rivals’ foreign ministers, Seoul’s Yonhap news agency reported Monday after the UN imposed a new round of sanctions on nuclear-armed Pyongyang. News of the brief encounter on the sidelines of a regional forum in Manila came as the South’s President Moon Jae-In urged a “peaceful resolution” to the tensions in a telephone conversation with […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Monday that a United Nations Security Council vote to impose sanctions on North Korea showed that world powers were united behind a push for a denuclearized Korean peninsula. Speaking at a security forum in Manila, Washington’s top diplomat said Kim Jong-Un’s regime must halt ballistic missile tests if it wanted to talk to the US about resolving the standoff. “It’s quite clear in terms […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-In on Sunday agreed that North Korea “poses a grave and growing direct threat,” in a phone call one day after the United Nations Security Council backed fresh sanctions on the North. “The two leaders affirmed that North Korea poses a grave and growing direct threat to the United States, South Korea, and Japan, as well as to most countries […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — The powerful military in riot-torn Venezuela has sworn “unconditional loyalty” to the leftist government of embattled President Nicolas Maduro. It is a key player in the ongoing political crisis. Maduro in turn has granted it vast powers, not just in military matters but over key government ministries — active or retired officers head 12 of 32 ministerial posts — and in vital economic sectors including petroleum. The military’s capabilities — and […]
SICHUAN, China (CCTV) — A massive landslide in southwest China blocked traffic on National Highway 213 for three hours on Sunday. No death or injury has been reported, according to the emergency office of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The landslide, occurring at 15:45, caused about 20,000 cubic meters of mud to fall onto the highway, cutting off traffic on the highway’s Maoxian County section. An emergency team, including […]
by Ronaldo Schemidt and Daniel Caceres Agence France Presse VALENCIA, Venezuela (AFP) — Venezuela’s military said Sunday it repelled a “terrorist” attack on a base in the city of Valencia, led by an army deserter allegedly linked to “foreign governments.” Two of the attackers were killed and eight were captured, President Nicolas Maduro said on state television, claiming the group of “mercenaries” — whose total number he put at around 20 — had ties to […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian diamond giant Alrosa will review its annual production plan after an accident at a key mine, the company said Sunday as a search went on for eight missing workers. “A review of the company’s production parameters will be conducted by August 19… as a result of the accident,” Alrosa president Sergei Ivanov said, in remarks distributed by the company. On Friday water broke into the Mir mine in the Sakha […]
by Dave Clark Agence France Presse MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The United States and China piled pressure on North Korea Sunday to abandon its nuclear missile program after the United Nations Security Council approved tough sanctions which could cost Pyongyang $1 billion a year. One day after Council members voted unanimously for a partial ban on exports aimed at slashing Pyongyang’s foreign revenue by a third, top diplomats from the key powers in the dispute […]
